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Topic: Whoaaa, did i just smoke a joint...? (Read 3258 times)

...or simply take my daily dose of Atripla? I had read several times that this lovely pill can make you feel as "loopy" as a good doobie (though I have never smoked one myself)... Here I sit watching re-runs of 'Dexter' and feeling stoned to say the least.

I had not felt this "side effect" thus far. I thought that after a couple of months you would not feel them... Guess this is happening either 'cause I ate a greasy Angus burger and fries from MD's or due to the fact that I'm up way past my bedtime

At any rate, I'm going to enjoy the feeling... wonder if this will be accompanied by some funky dreams once I hit the sack.

M.

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"I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else."

After 3 months I still get the occasional "Atripla Trip", I too attribute it to what I have eaten. Oh and the dreams are still there, just last night I dreamed the State Police opened a substation in my bathroom, WTF?

I can't even remember what I dreamt last night. I guess it no longer has much of an impact upon what plays in my head while I sleep (probably re-runs of what happened during the day). In the beginning it did, but it was sort of influenced by what I had read or, as mentioned by Snow, seen on TV right before bedtime.

And the 'stoned' sensation hasn't been here the last couple of days...

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"I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else."

After 3 months I still get the occasional "Atripla Trip", I too attribute it to what I have eaten. Oh and the dreams are still there, just last night I dreamed the State Police opened a substation in my bathroom, WTF?

-Will

LMFAO>> in your bathroom.. ha... I love it. I have some really strange dreams too, somtimes i remember them.. can't think of any now to tell u, but loved that one. I just laughed over and over....at 6am as I lay in bed awake 2 hours before I should be awake...LOL

I'm in my 2nd month into the Atripla.. I don't really get "stoned" as I try and keep 2-3 hours break from food before popping the pill at night (regardless of what I ate). If I don't keep that food break, I will get "stoned" even if it's just drinking some tea (with some sugar) before the pill...

My main "complaint" is that on occasion, I will feel very weak the next morning and during the day (just a ganeral weakness, I can still go to work but don't really feel like working out or doing much..). I still haven't figured out what causes those weak days to occur..

I also couldn't eat within 3 hours of taking my Atripla until ~late in the 3rd month. Now I can eat a low-fat snack with or after taking my Atripla without waking up dizzy and tired. Unfortunately, I also have way fewer dreams. I used to get a kick out of them.